[Rheology and hyaluronic acid in inflammatory joint effusions (author's transl)].

The Weissenberg rheogoniometer was used to measure viscosity, normal force and the number of molecular entanglements, calculated from a shear modulus obtained by prestationary experiments, in inflammatory and non-inflammatory synovial fluid effusions. The rheological properties show greater pathological change in the inflammatory synovial fluid samples than in the non-inflammatory. Variation in the hyaluronic acid concentration is only partly responsible for the pathological rheology.

On the analysis of rates of behaviour.

Formulas are developed for calculating the expected frequency of behaviour and of social interactions in each age-sex category or other class, particularly when the study population changes composition during the study, given the null hypothesis either of constant but unknown rates of behaviour that are independent of class, or of class-specific rates per individual.